strange behaviour after ftp upload to 1&1 webspace

[twickle]

Hello,

i have develloped a processwire 2.3.0 website locally on an ubuntu webserver with php5.3.

After develloping i have uploaded the page via FTP to a 1&1 webspace.

I experience the following behaviour:

- the frontend looks good, all links work, everything seems to work

- i am not able to login into the backend with my admin user anymore

- i have tried to reset the password via api and it doesn't help.

- enabling the debug mode shows no additional information

interesting is: the system seems to recognize the right combination of user and password and shows again the login page asif nothing has happened. If i enter a wrong combination, the wrong combination wil be recognized and an error will be shown.

I have tried to do a fresh install to check the prerequisites. One error is shown: the .htaccess/mod_rewirte is not recognized - in the frontend mod_rewrite works.

I'm thankful for any hint or information.

Regards,

Thomas

[DaveP]

Hi, Thomas and welcome to the forums!

From some of the details in your question, it looks like you have some experience in these matters, so I won't go through the obvious suggestions. The problem does indeed look like an .htaccess problem. There is some info about getting PW working on 1&1 starting here http://processwire.com/talk/topic/264-editing-htaccess-%E2%80%93-ok-or-not/#entry1788

I can't vouch for it's accuracy but it looks like it addresses similar problems to those you are having. Take a look, and if it doesn't help, come back here and I'm sure we can get you working.